On March 16, US warplanes attacked a crowded mosque in Aleppo Province, killing at least 38 people during a religious lecture. Human Rights Watch (HRW), having conducted their own investigation into the matter, says the attack was “likely unlawful.”
The US has promised their own investigation into the matter but so far haven’t offered much of anything, jumping between conflicting claims that it was an al-Qaeda target, that it wasn’t a mosque at all, and speculating that the Syrian military might’ve coincidentally attacked the mosque during an active US airstrike, despite pieces of US munitions being found inside the mosque.
HRW attributed this to a lack of target analysis ahead of the attack, saying that officials were unaware that the site was a mosque and unaware that they attacked during the start of evening prayers, saying that even cursory analysis could’ve figured at least some of this out.
HRW went on to advise the US to “do its homework” before launching such strikes. The Pentagon, however, is always interested in being able to deny incidents, irrespective of the lack of credibility of such a denial, and claiming they didn’t know it was a mosque, because they didn’t check, might ultimately be enough for the Pentagon to keep the incident out of their official toll of civilians killed, despite killing a number of civilians in the process.
It is a sad irony that the American war machine is deployed in the name of security and yet if it is not curbed it will only increase the risk of violent blowback to the homeland.
Shhhh….The Empire would prefer that the common people not be made aware of that little fact. The Empire prefers that we stay ignorant, even willingly ignorant, complacent, but most of all, quiet.
Naw, they need to brag.
But but but . . . at least the USA didn’t use CHEMICAL WEAPONS to kill these innocent people! It’s far more humane to kill people instantly than to let them suffer a slow agonizing death with chem weapons! And who cares anyway- when the USA and Israel kill people it’s all for the good of the planet, right?
(This is sarcasm)
To most people it is sarcasm.
Many warhawk types probably totally agree with it with no sense of sarcasm but much mirth.
Some in the U.S. military have their own way of worshipping, apparently.
And we all thought human sacrifice was ancient history.